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...Like That (Columbia) is a distressing but feeble commentary on situations of social discord in an outlying Army post. Jilted by a dashing lieutenant (John Wrayne), the girl (Laura La Plante) marries his friend, who is a colonel. Later, to preserve the morals of her young sister, she compromises the lieutenant so seriously that he nearly loses his commission. Based on Augustus Thomas' play Arizona, which was produced in 1899, Men Are Like That seems a needless survival of an insignificant intrigue. A typically trite shot is the one with which the picture starts: an Army-Navy football game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 24, 1931 | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

...this time the wall of discord, so the hewers said, had thinned to only

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Hoover to Laval! | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

...Brisbane's style is in the persistent use of capital letters. Sample: "The great Agriculturist . . . whose genius causes the earth to bloom more luxuriantly . . . and the great Mechanician . . . must be honored as highly as the scheming Politician or the intriguing Statesman, whose intrigues fill the World with conflict and discord." Son Arthur Brisbane carries capitals further. Samples of last week: "It pays to THINK AND WORK. NEITHER, BY ITSELF, WILL CARRY YOU FAR. . . ." "No nation could exist HALF STARVED AND HALF...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A. B. | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

...welcoming a Harvard team to the Princeton campus once more. As the Harvard CRIMSON recently said, "relations are now on the soundest principle--friendship founded on mutual respect." We hope that they may continue so in the future and that eventually both universities will forget entirely the unfortunate discord of 1926. --The Daily Princetonian. *Saturday, March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "A Noteworthy Occasion" | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

...Almighty God who hast given us this good land for our heritage: We humbly beseech thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of Thy favor and glad to do Thy will. Bless our land with honourable industry, sound learning, and pure manners. Save us from violence, discord, confusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Prayers & Proclamations | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

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